Quotes from Kevin Vanhoozer

Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

Christianity is neither a system of ideas nor of morality but a way, a way of life.

Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts.

Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for this reason that we resist simply collapsing the text into the tradition of its interpretation and performance.

To make disciples is to teach people how to keep the faith. One keeps faith by following Jesus' words rather than merely knowing faith's content.

Of ultimate importance, then, is not that I become good, or that the condition of the world be improved by my efforts, but that the reality of God show itself everywhere to be the ultimate reality.

theology is the serious and joyful attempt to live blessedly with others, before God, in Christ, through the Spirit

Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty. The

In sum: the church exists to be a living exhibit of the reality of the gospel.

the twenty-first-century evangelical church is on the verge of selling its Protestant birthright, sola scriptura, for a mess of pottage, sola cultura.